Author: MIKKELSEN, Ejnar.
Title: Drie jaar in het Poolijs. De geschiedenis van de 'Alabama' expeditie in de jaren 1909-1912. Bewerking uit het Deensch door M. van Blankenstein.
Description: Rotterdam, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, (1913). 4to. Original cloth. With folding map and many photographic illustrations. 251 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in Danish Tre år på Grønlands østkyst. Copenhagen 1913. - In 1909 Mikkelsen took charge of an expedition to Northeast Greenland to seek out the maps and diaries known to have been left there by Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen in 1907. After they were discovered in a cairn, a harrowing journey back began and found the wreck of the Alabama. He was forced to endure another two winters on the Greenland coast till his rescue in 1912. Arctic Bibl. 11438; Howgego III M39.
Keywords: Arctic Dutch travel Greenland Pole
Title: Drie jaar in het Poolijs. De geschiedenis van de 'Alabama' expeditie in de jaren 1909-1912. Bewerking uit het Deensch door M. van Blankenstein.
Description: Rotterdam, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, (1913). 4to. Original cloth. With folding map and many photographic illustrations. 251 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in Danish Tre år på Grønlands østkyst. Copenhagen 1913. - In 1909 Mikkelsen took charge of an expedition to Northeast Greenland to seek out the maps and diaries known to have been left there by Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen in 1907. After they were discovered in a cairn, a harrowing journey back began and found the wreck of the Alabama. He was forced to endure another two winters on the Greenland coast till his rescue in 1912. Arctic Bibl. 11438; Howgego III M39.
Keywords: Arctic Dutch travel Greenland Pole
Price: EUR 71.50 = appr. US$ 77.71 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 802
- Book number: 802